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Arsenije Sečujac ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Сечујац, ; 1720 – 13 January 1814) was a Habsburg general who earned the rank of major general at the very end of his military career and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, the highest Monarchy decoration, in 1762.


Biography


Early life

An ethnic Serb,
 Sečujac was born in 1720, somewhere in
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, most likely in Eastern Syrmia (in modern Serbia), which at the time was part of the Slavonian Military Frontier (where the Slavonia- Petrovaradin Military Infantry Regiment was established later, in 1747). His father was Đorđe (or ''Georgije''), a Habsburg military commander, and his mother was named Ana Stanisavljević. Two of his brothers also served in the military.


Military career

Sečujac joined the army in 1741 as a cadet in the Stara Gradiška infantry unit, of the Slavonian Military Frontier and fought in many battles during several wars (
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,
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, War of the Bavarian Succession). During the first years of the Seven Years' War he became a major and in 1762 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa and promoted to lieutenant colonel. He received noble status in 1763. Having succeeded the noble status from his father, who had received the ennobling predicate "von Heldenfeld" (), Sečujac was elevated to
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on 29 December 1767 (and henceforth known as ''Baron Seczujacz von Heldenfeld''). During his lifetime, he served in several garrisons or military bases, ending his career as commanding officer of the 66th Slavonian- Brod Military Frontier Infantry Regiment, a unit which he took over as
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in 1777. A chancellery was established, in which the first counselor was bishop (eparch) Petar Petrović of the Archdiocese of Arad; on November 17, the same year, the counselor was general-major and baron Arsenije Sečujac; other notable members were Mihailo Maksimović, Uroš Nestorović, Teodor Avramović. A captaincy which he established was based in Bela Crkva, but was short-lived, disestablished in 1776. He headed a political group which advocated unity of the Serbian people. He was a supporter of
Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић, ; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist and the first minister of education of Se ...
. At the very end of his military career, on 24 February 1783, he was promoted to the rank of major general, but he retired on the 10 April that year. He died at the age of 93 in
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in 1814.


See also

* Sečujac, surname * Jeronim Ljubibratić * Paul Davidovich * Gavrilo Rodić * Svetozar Borojević * Paul von Radivojevich


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Sečujac (Seczujacz) in a list of Habsburg generalsBiography in Austrian Biographical LexiconColonel Sečujac was commanding officer of the Slavonian-Brod Infantry Regiment from 1777 to 1783.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Secujac, Arsen Military personnel of the Habsburg monarchy Austrian generals 18th-century Austrian people 19th-century Austrian people 18th-century Serbian people 19th-century Serbian people Croatian barons History of Slavonia History of Syrmia People of the Military Frontier 1720 births 1814 deaths Petrovaradin Serbian politicians Habsburg Serbs